Variables hold a special place in ... er ... your scripts; namely, they're placeholders for objects.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/12/2010
Get to the good stuff with the Get-PSDrive cmdlet.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/05/2010
The Wait-Process in PowerShell 2.0 -- kinda like the Yield sign for multi-process scripts.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/22/2009
Some cool cmdlets that can help you with migrating or provisioning computers.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/15/2009
Compare-Object cmdlet tricks you might not know about.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/08/2009
The security community needs to address issues that have been neglected in the past few years, according to security experts at the Government Technology Research Alliance Council.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/08/2009
The ConvertTo-CSV cmdlet, new with PowerShell 2.0, gives you a bit more flexibility in how you plug into CSV-formatted info.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/01/2009
Get-EventLog plays well in PowerShell 2.0, providing you with more information in a less confusing way.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/17/2009
Thirteen leading technology companies including Microsoft have joined with Lockheed Martin to form a new cybersecurity technology alliance.
Hewlett-Packard has said it will acquire 3Com for $2.7 billion in cash, in an agreement reached by both companies' boards.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/12/2009
There are more than 800 functions and cmdlets, so start getting familiar with them.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/09/2009
PowerShell 2.0 has the power to do more. But you gotta read the help to find out what works and what doesn't. Herewith, an example.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/03/2009
Microsoft released a client tracking component on Monday that works with its System Center Operations Manager 2007 product.
Is it a PowerShell 1.0 script or is it version 2? Remember which one with this simple scripting tip.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/27/2009
Windows 7 officially hits the street this week, and so does PowerShell 2.0. The better, faster PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/20/2009
The Tee-Object cmdlet offers up another way of seeing data coughed up by other output cmdlets.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/06/2009
PowerShell is all-seeing. Even Word document data can be viewed using some PowerShell cmdlets.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 09/29/2009
Networking threats are migrating from the network perimeter to the interior and up the networking stack, often making older firewall technologies and policies inadequate.
- By William Jackson
- 09/28/2009
If the latest semiannual round of security advisories from Cisco are any indication, DoS attacks continue to be a serious -- and largely unsolvable -- problem for networks.
- By Joab Jackson
- 09/25/2009
You can pull a library's worth of info with this very useful command. Here's the trick.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 09/22/2009